Better Angels

Better Angels: The Firefighters of 9/11

“Better Angels: The Firefighters of 9/11″ is 343 portraits of the firefighters who died on 9/11.  Each painting is rendered in black, white and raw umber on a 6” x 4” burned block of baltic birch.  Displayed in seven rows of 49 columns, the portraits span 48” by 21 feet.

All 343 portraits can be seen individually on the Better Angels website.  The site also has a place to leave comments or remembrances about any of the men, and an archive of stories, photographs and videos from Better Angels’ 11-city national tour in 2011-2012.

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